Over the past five years there has been an escalation in reports relating to quality of life issues
for both adults and children. Measurement of quality of life has become fashionable for a …

While it is recognized that quality of life is ultimately as important as quantity of life, efforts to
implement quality of life measurement often fail. Two basic reasons for that failure include: 1) …

… A QOL measure that aims to measure quality of life broadly but only includes economic items
would likely be judged to lack content validity; it would be better to rename it a measure of …

… any measure of QoL is clearly vital. It is important to know that we are measuring what we think
we are measuring… It is common to read that a measure is “valid” where the emphasis is on …

This paper considers quality of life (QOL) to be a global, yet unidimensional, subjective
assessment of one's satisfaction with life. This conceptualization is consistent with viewing QOL …

… life” and the desirable society for millennia. In the last decades, scientists offered several
alternative approaches to defining and measuring quality of life… to their lives and societies), and …

… have been developed to measure health-related quality of life in patients with cancer. As
these are employed with increasing frequency, rigorous quality assurance of data collection is …

Life is good when quality of life is high. To many of us, an ideal quality of life index would
measure a person’s overall well-being; that is, an individual’s total utility. An ideal index would …

… In this paper the use of proxies to measure quality of life is addressed. We consider the
advantages and disadvantages of using proxies to rate quality of life, debate the reasons why a …

… Many instruments used for measuring QoL make an inadequate evaluation of the
subjective experience of a disease and the effect of an intervention. These instruments are …